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George Henry Daggitt 5th Yorkshire Regiment, the elder brother of Joseph of Beaver Road, Beverley. Both brothers were prisoners of war
George enlisted in the army April 1915, prior to this he was a ‘rivet heater’ at the shipyard, he was also a member of the Church Lads Brigade.
George was listed in the Jan 1919 Beverley Guardian as a prisoner of war. He was taken to Quedlinburg in Germany, a mining area. George died from influenza whilst a prisoner on 1 Nov 1918.
The Beverley Guardian 11 Jan 1919 had a report from Private Tom Johnson of 10th East Yorkshire Regiment who had been held in the same camp. He reported that amongst Russian, French and Italian prisoners there were only 11 English men. During his time in captivity he was engaged in work in the salt mines and he reported that both living and treatment was exceedingly bad and had on many occasions subsisted on root food.
George is remembered on the Toll Gavel Church Memorial, the Holme-Church Lane Street shrine, the East Riding Memorial in Beverley Minster and on the Beverley War Memorial in Hengate
Includes information taken from census, military records, Commonwealth War Graves, newspapers |